Frank o'hara cause of death
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Frank O’Hara
Frank (Francis Russell) O’Hara was born in Maryland on March 27, 1926. He grew up in Massachusetts and later studied piano at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1941 to 1944. O’Hara then served in the South Pacific and Japan as a sonarman on the destroyer USS Nicholas during World War II.
Following the war, O’Hara studied at Harvard College, where he majored in music and worked on compositions and was deeply influenced by contemporary music, his first love, as well as visual art. He also wrote poetry at that time and read the work of Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Boris Pasternak, and Vladimir Mayakovsky.
While at Harvard, O’Hara met John Ashbery and soon began publishing poems in the Harvard Advocate. Despite his love for music, O’Hara changed his major and left Harvard in 1950 with a degree in English. He then attended graduate school at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and received his MA in 1951. That autumn, O’Hara moved into an apartment in New York. He was soon employed at the front desk of the Museum of Modern Art and continued to
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Frank O'Hara
American poet, art critic and writer
For the Australian rules footballer, see Frank O'Hara (footballer).
Frank O'Hara | |
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| Born | (1926-03-27)March 27, 1926 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | July 25, 1966(1966-07-25) (aged 40) Mastic Beach, New York, U.S. |
| Resting place | Green River Cemetery, Springs, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, art curator |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB) University of Michigan (MA) |
| Literary movement | The New York School |
| Notable works | Lunch Poems |
Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure in the New York School, an informal group of artists, writers, and musicians who drew inspiration from jazz, surrealism, abstract expressionism, action painting, and contemporary avant-garde art movements.
O'Hara's poetry is personal in tone and content, and has been described as sounding "like entries in a diary
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O’Hara’s personality became famous long before his poetry did.Photograph by Renate Ponsold
Frank O’Hara lived in New York City for fifteen years, from 1951 until his death, in 1966. In that time, he wrote hundreds of poems, often several a day, hunting and pecking on a portable Royal with great speed. (Trained as a pianist, he called writing “playing the typewriter.”) He arrived late in New York, having grown up in Grafton, Massachusetts, attended Harvard after a tour of duty in the Navy, and then spent a year in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a distant planet settled for the manufacture of master’s degrees. Big welcomes suited O’Hara, and, in the summer of 1951, he got one: “far from Ypsilanti and Flint,” he was greeted by a carful of friends—the poet John Ashbery, the painter Jane Freilicher, and Hal Fondren, one of his Harvard roommates—and given a tour up and down Manhattan and across the George Washington Bridge to the Palisades Amusement Park, on the New Jersey cliffs, where he viewed as a panorama the city that he would soon depict in molecular detail.
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